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Available. do you wish, you know, there were steps taken much earlier on? >> yeah. i think we all want as much vaccine as possible. of course we know we're -- our federal partners are restricted by how much they have on supply. we're hopeful that the activity that we're seeing will continue and this momentum will continue as we all work together, local, state and federal to contain this outbreak. >> gotcha. i do want to point out some disparities in terms of access to vaccines and this is from cdc data that suggests black and hispanic men, you know, make up a disproportionate number of monkeyp...

Adapt operation center in the last week. they have distributed trying to get tests to commercial labs, maybe labs closer to you charles toy don't have to send you to an academic center. charles, it's just not good enough. our tests are not sufficient, we are likely undercounting. for this reason, i think people watching and listening should speak up. they should not assume that there has been a heavy population in men who have sex with men. that is a higher risk population, but don't assume anything. with covid we saw that assumptions were always wrong, so we need to be a bit more humble. bett...

Booster shots for children ages 5-11 despite limited risk that population has. should we be forcing our children to get the booster, congressman? >> if you're in the age group, you are really at low risk, no doubt about it. if you have an immunocompromised child, you may need it or want to as precaution, but that is a conversation between you and your doctor. i struggle with all the things coming out from on high as though this is the definitive answer. i'm a doctor, everybody is different. every patient is different. this is lesser risk population, what concerns me is how we as a nation and o...

Not makes it way to chicago through the teacher's union, if it is safe for in-personning learning in other states, why not chicago. >> right, look at new york city mayor eric adams is leaving the schools open, we're the largest public school system in the nation, government provided millions of dollars in funding and n-95 masks for the teachers. and vaccinated. they have funding for air filter systems. really at this point thereim is no excuse for it. knowing that with children, they are the lowest risk population, why are we putting such string ent rules and regulations when they are such low...

Thankfully, hospitalization rates per cases right now are much lower than we have seen in prior waives. he also could have come down on the fda about expediting getting these antivirals to the market. the fda has been sitting on them. they have up to 90% ability to keep people out of the hospital if they are given early on in the course of disease. he could have talked about removing cloth masks for children. come down hard on the schools that are close and keeping children out of school again and he eliminated quarantines and reduce the post infection. all of this would have been much more he...